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The “Sufi” Crusader

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EVENT: Atheists Announce Initiatives, Host Interfaith Dialogue at Park51

On Tuesday, November 15th at 7:00 PM (EST), the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard will hold an event hosted by Park51 and Center for Inquiry NYC , in partnership with a wide swath of NYC-based organizations, to discuss communities for the nonreligious and the role of atheists in interfaith work, while launching two groundbreaking new initiatives: The Humanist Community Project, and Values in Action at the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard. … This event will be co-sponsored by the Harvard Humanist Alumni and major NYC-based atheist, religious, and LGBT organizations: GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), New York Society for Ethical Culture , HUUmanists , The Humanist Institute , Ethical Humanist Chaplaincy at Columbia University , Reasonable New York , Faith House Manhattan , World Faith , Groundswell , Auburn Seminary , Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue , Bronx Community College Secular Humanist Club .